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Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire, Joan Blaeu, 1659

Published in the time ofCROMWELL1649 - 1660

EARLY HAND COLOURING

26212 Renfrewshire, Joan Blaeu, 1659. Price: 500.00

PRAEFECTURA RENFROANA VULGO DICTA BARONIA. THE BARONIE OF RENFROW. Timotheus Pont Auctore. A fine 17th century map of the county. The title is displayed within a large decorative cartouche with figures and a blank shield. A separate cartouche alongside displays the scale with two putti. 21 x 15 1/4 inches. Early hand colouring. Spanish text on verso. Fine clean crisp condition with full large blank margins.

Ross and Cromarty

An untitled chart engraved by Herman Moll, orientated with west at the top. The chart is embellished with a decorative dedication cartouche reading To the Rt. Honble. my Lord Viscount Torbat Lord Register of the Kingdom of Scotland This map is Most Humbly Dedicated & Presented by Capt. G. Collins Hydrographer to the King 1689. 21 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches. Hand coloured. Good condition.

ENJOY THE SLENDOUR OF THE MAGNIFICENT 17TH CENTURY MAPS BY

THE BLAEU FAMILY

Back in in the 1960's I was fortunate to buy my first set of atlases by Joan Blaeu. It was in fact an incomplete set of seven volumes all bound in contemporary Dutch cream calf decorated with gold. The colouring was superb and in a way unique in that if I see any Blaeu maps now I would be able to identify whether they came from this same set. I bought the atlases at a well know London auction house having set off early that morning on the train from Chester. These were the days before the hated buyer's premium arrived. In fact if you were able to buy the atlases today at auction the buyer's premium alone would probably be about the price I paid for the set. I remember struggling back to Euston station with the volumes and was so protective that I would not even let the porter help me along the platform and onto the train. The atlases were later split and brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of my customers.

You can enjoy looking at these remarkable engraved maps of most parts of the world via a series of reproduction atlases produced in full colour

AN ANTIQUE MAP OR PRINT MAKES A VERY SPECIAL RETIREMENT GIFT

RICHARD NICHOLSON
of CHESTER

I have been buying and selling antique maps since the early 1960's during which time I had a gallery in Watergate Street, Chester for 30 years. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors.

All the maps are guaranteed to be genuine early specimens

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